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ACTUAL HAPPENINGS AT THE GARMAN'S FARM WHERE A TERRIBLE FIRE, WHICH BURNED 50 HOMES, WAS STOPPED AT THEIR DOOR. THE MOST IMPORTANT LESSON IN THE FILM IS THE WAY IN WHICH EACH OF THE GARMAN CHILDREN RISES TO THE EMERGENCY, AND DOES HIS PART. Filmed in and around the Chatsworth fire of 1947 in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, at a time when many parts of the San Fernando Valley were still farming communities.



Ken Smith sez: One of the many distinctive films by Emily Benton Frith, featuring the voice of "commentator" Don McNamara. In this production, "Captain Clemens" of the fire department teaches Patty Garman (see Bill Garman: 12-Year-Old Businessman) how to "chaperone your match" and demonstrates safety techniques by setting fire to a doll on the end of a stick. The bulk of this film takes place in flashback, as Patty relives (and Emily gets to use) footage from "the terrible Chatsworth fire," while the narrator tells us that such fires are to be expected "after an earthquake or an atomic bomb." Watch for the guest appearances by Bill Garman and Mother Mack (see Mother Mack's Puppies Find Happy Homes). Great fire footage.

School children congregated on a lawn
Close-up of a match being struck
Discarded wrapping paper piled near a Christmas tree
A boy wraps himself in a blanket as part of a fire safety demonstration
A little girl milking a goat
Geese
Three people followed by a dog running down a dirt road
A grass fire
A burning barn
Firefighters with hoses
A house engulfed in flames, collapsing
A little girl in a corral of goats
Three horses running loose, one limping
A group of reporters
Close up of a doll laying on ashes with a flame burning between her legs
Two children crying, standing in the remains of a charred building
FIRES EMERGENCIES FIREMEN FAMILY LIFE Fires Firefighting Firefighters Fire safety Los Angeles, Calif. (history and culture) Chatsworth, Calif. (history and culture) Buildings (burning) Garman, Patty (character) Families Fire trucks Trucks (fire) Danger Lurks
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